Despite scary selloffs it looks safe to swim with stocks
Just when you thought it might have been safe to wade back into the tricky ‘waters’ of the stock market...
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Just when you thought it might have been safe to wade back into the tricky ‘waters’ of the stock market...
In response to a subscriber’s question during last week’s Boom, Doom, Zoom! that we hold each Thursday at noon, here are 5 stocks that look like good value at the moment, or should be jumped on with a market pullback.
Selling in May to go away hasn’t been the smart strategy so far, with our S&P/ASX 200 up around 3% since May 1.
Just about every year, you know I run up the investors’ flagpole the old market maxim that goes, “Sell in May, go away, come back on St Leger’s Day”. It worked last year, despite the fact that the S&P/ASX 200 index went up in May! Or should you sell this May, wait for a 5% comeback for the market, and then get on board?
While I can’t use the f-word, I’d like to after the US at long last got a downbeat jobs report, to which I say: “At long, freaking last!” Yep, that’s got it out of me...
The companies in question are Worley (WOR), Qube Holdings (QUB), Sonic Healthcare, Ampol, Magnis Energy Technologies, Helloworld Travel, Calix, and Iluka Resources. Let’s go through each one of these.
While I can’t use the f-word, I’d like to after the US at long last got a downbeat jobs report, to which I say: “At long, freaking last!” Yep, that’s got it out of me...
We’re currently in a pullback that could evolve into a 10% plus correction. However, that only provides a buying opportunity for the long-term investor.
After decades of waking up to Wall Street news and then trying to make sense out of the world’s most important stock markets centred in New York for what might happen on our ASX, I have to say the overnight positivity for all three US key indexes completely surprised me!
Somebody told you there’d be days like these and now I’ll show you how to play them.
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